Main events related to the History of African Americans in the US up to 1954

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  • Declaration of Independence

  • How was after the establishment of the United States of America?

  • The powerful central government of the British monarch, was in Washington, DC

  • Republican Party

  • Fighting

  • Civil war and the abolition of slavery

  • The 13th Amendment

  • The 14th Amendment

  • The 15th Amendment

  • Black advancement during Reconstruction

  • All southern states approved the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and rejoined the Union

  • Poll tax in Mississippi for those who wished to register to vote

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • In most parts of the South, only three per cent of blacks could vote